1. poverty-stricken - Adjective
2. poverty-stricken - Adjective Satellite
poor enough to need help from others
Source: WordNetpoverty stricken
After Reconstruction ended, the South was left a poverty-stricken backwater dependent on agriculture, while white Southerners soon succeeded in re-establishing legal and political dominance over blacks through violence, intimidation and discrimination. Source: Internet
Atop that music he layered lyrics that spoke of his experiences in a poverty-stricken and often conflict-riven country, yet made sure listeners never lost sight of hope and joy. Source: Internet
Aid organizations are warning that 50 million in the poverty-stricken Sahel region could starve. Source: Internet
If it is criminal to rob a liquor store, certainly it is criminal to loot the national treasury of a poverty-stricken country. Source: Internet
He was apparently unemployed, unmarried, poverty-stricken and a recluse, although he corresponded with botanists throughout Europe. Source: Internet
It’s a trailer - the film isn’t even fully shot, and it’s not yet known if the unsettling implications of a trust fund billionaire beating poverty-stricken teens to a pulp are going to be explored. Source: Internet